{"id":45061,"date":"2014-11-16T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45061"},"modified":"2014-11-16T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:47:40","slug":"cougars-left-out-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45061","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Left Out of Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22728\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=22728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22728\" class=\"wp-image-22728\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC_0343-387x300.jpg\" alt=\"APU HC VIctor Santa Cruz led his team to a conference title and a 10-1 record, but it wasn't enough for a playoff berth.  \" width=\"350\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APU HC VIctor Santa Cruz led his team to a conference title and a 10-1 record, but it wasn&#8217;t enough for a playoff berth.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Glendora) Despite finishing the season 10-1 and\u00a0winning the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Azusa Pacific has been left out of the Division II playoffs.\u00a024 D-II teams were selected\u00a0Sunday\u00a0and APU was not one of them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Cougars needed to finish in the top four of\u00a0Super Regional Three but fell short.\u00a0APU\u00a0ended the season with a 54-0 rout of Menlo Saturday night.\u00a0Terrell Watson rushed for 338 yards in the contest and finished with over 2,100 overall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are\u00a0league champions, went 10-1 and have the nation&#8217;s leading rusher who has made school history. That&#8217;s a pretty good case that we belong in the playoffs,&#8221;\u00a0said APU HC Victor Santa Cruz after the win over Menlo.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not good enough of a case for the D-II selection committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Glendora) Despite finishing the season 10-1 and\u00a0winning the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Azusa Pacific has been left out of the Division II playoffs.\u00a024 D-II teams were selected\u00a0Sunday\u00a0and APU was not one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[8101,8337,10744,8323,7040],"class_list":["post-45061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-football","tag-gnac","tag-menlo-football","tag-terrell-watson","tag-victor-santa-cruz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45064,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45061\/revisions\/45064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}